From Frustration to Finding One's Self

Abstract

Christopher Saucedo is a first-generation undergraduate student at California State University, Los Angeles. He is an artist, designer, and avid fiction writer studying English. From an early age, frustration at school and at home led to being held back when he knew he could do better if only he could discover how to demonstrate it. Though his life goals have suffered many setbacks, he has persisted thanks in part to the determination of his mother and her ambition to see him make it in higher education, even if she was not able to see him make it in the end.